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“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

 

These verses call to mind that famous Robert Frost poem from long ago:

“Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So, Eden sank to grief,

So, dawn goes down today.

Nothing gold can stay.”

Except….one gold thing can stay. It’s what bridges earth and the heavens. Christ is the gold in us that can stay. He stays in our memories, too….in the words we carry of those that loved us. He’s in the selfless acts that we remember and replicate in the present. He’s in the remembered hope from long ago that we can still carry. Even those that we have lost are still linked to that gold and are with us in some form.

This side of heaven is temporal, but there is His hope that we can carry until we get to the other side of eternity.

Allison Montgomery Yes5olias1@yahoo.com

 

Prayer Concern: For all those grieving at the holidays and for their families.

Alternate verses : Isaiah 26 : 1-9, Psalm 20